As a seasoned Release Engineer, I bring a blend of technical expertise and hands-on experience to software development and deployment. My qualifications include:• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, providing a solid foundation in software engineering principles.• Experience: Over 36 years in software development and operations, with a focus on coding, database management, and infrastructure.• Certifications: Scrum Master certification, enhancing agile project… Show more As a seasoned Release Engineer, I bring a blend of technical expertise and hands-on experience to software development and deployment. My qualifications include:• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, providing a solid foundation in software engineering principles.• Experience: Over 36 years in software development and operations, with a focus on coding, database management, and infrastructure.• Certifications: Scrum Master certification, enhancing agile project management skills.• Technical Skills: Proficient in eGit, and configuration management tools. Skilled at troubleshooting and optimizing release processes.I thrive in dynamic environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless software delivery. Let’s connect to discuss how I can contribute to your organization’s success! Show less

Test Infrastructure Manager • Coordinate the projects and testing resources• Review Change Information for production approval. \• Build and maintain test environments for multiple projects across multiple platforms..• Set up a network of PC’s to load test high volume of transactions into the Mainframe Online system.• Ran Benchmark and testing phases for install of New Mainframe CPU, including connectivity issues and stress under load handling… Show more Test Infrastructure Manager • Coordinate the projects and testing resources• Review Change Information for production approval. \• Build and maintain test environments for multiple projects across multiple platforms..• Set up a network of PC’s to load test high volume of transactions into the Mainframe Online system.• Ran Benchmark and testing phases for install of New Mainframe CPU, including connectivity issues and stress under load handling capabilities.• Created an application to automatically write reporting programs with only User specifications and filenames as input, using TSO Panels, Rexx, Clists, Easytrieve, COBOL, and JCL Show less

Mainframe Change Coordinator • Change Control Coordinator for the AMG mainframe processes. This involved representing the Differentiated Service Change control in several meetings each week, involved coordinating the AMG application installs with System services installs. Also responsible for determination and notification of parties being affected by changes, across multiple platforms. Project Lead for Kansas City and Richardson LPAR system ConversionI was responsible for… Show more Mainframe Change Coordinator • Change Control Coordinator for the AMG mainframe processes. This involved representing the Differentiated Service Change control in several meetings each week, involved coordinating the AMG application installs with System services installs. Also responsible for determination and notification of parties being affected by changes, across multiple platforms. Project Lead for Kansas City and Richardson LPAR system ConversionI was responsible for the successful move and conversion of all Testing environments for AMG on a single LPAR located in Richardson TX to a multiple LPAR sysplex environment in Kansas City. • Migration of CICS regions to standardized naming conventions. Split off the Print owning region from the Terminal owning region, and standardized the DB2 Procs across the regions.Test System Lead Directed Team in maintenance of Systems integration, and User Acceptance regions for the PACE system. • Designed, coded, and implemented automated retrofit process that reduced the requirements of 6 programmers to maintain one test cycle a week to 2 programmers to maintain 3 cycles a week. • Implemented a system of escalation procedures for the SIT/UAT regions, that paralleled production procedures. Reduced cycle run times from an average of 48 hours to less than 4 hoursSenior Test Systems Analyst • Responsible for the core design of an automated process to replace the manual capture of check information from the check printers, eliminating 1 hour delay in the middle of nightly batch cycle for production.• Data capture and Rebuild including initial cycles for data validation• Participation in the yearly Enterprise wide Disaster Recovery Excercises.Test System Analyst• Retrofit application changes into development region from version control tool; converted JCL and applied overrides; file allocations, job scheduling, etc. Monitored cycles and resolved system issues. Show less